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AN ALL-STAR GALA (SORT OF)

The Thalians is a worthy organization around since the mid-Fifties where young Hollywood stars at the the time got together to help children with mental problems. The organization is still going strong today with Debbie Reynolds as President (a post she has held since 1958) and Ruta Lee as Chairman of the Board. Every year they honor an actor at this year’s Thalians Gala Ball the recepient was Clint Eastwood.

Sadly, the All-Star Gala Ball was more like a Hollywood Collector’s Show reunion. Great for people like me but not one A-List star to be found as one would expect to see at a salute to Eastwood. Guests included BarBara Luna (looking smashing in a glittery evening gown), Mamie Van Doren, Carol Lynley (looking really hagard and what’s with the leopard pants and orange raincoat? sigh), Stella Stevens, Deanna Lund, Lou Ferrigno, Anne Jeffreys, Rich Little, Barbie Benton, Linda Blair, Patty McCormack, etc.

Click here to take a look as the celebrities arrived.

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I LOVE MOVIE PREVIEWS

Click here to check out Trailers from Hell a cool site featuring classic movie previews with commentary from an ecletic array of movie pros. Lots of the 60s starlets’ including Ursula Andress, Raquel Welch, Stefanie Powers, Joan O’Brien, Joan Freeman, Marianna Hill, Yvette Mimieux, etc. are featured.


Click here to sample The Trip (1967) below with Peter Fonda, Salli Sachse as the LSD Freak-Out Girl and Susan Strasberg.

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HE AIN’T NO SIXTIES STARLET BUT…

soap star Roscoe Born is one of my favorite actors and is one of the reasons I became a soap addict. As a newly enrolled college student with early and late afternoon classes, I stumbled upon Ryan’s Hope at 12:30pm in the fall of 1980. Not surprisingly since I love 60’s blondes, I immediately was impressed by Randall Edwards who played deceitful troublemaker Delia Reid Ryan Coleridge. A few months later Roscoe joined the cast as “reformed” mobster Joe Novack who returned to rekindle his romance with ex-wife Siobhan Ryan. But Joe was secretly still working for the mob and this storyline ala The Sopranos lasted for 2 1/2 years until Roscoe departed the show. Needless to say I was hooked. Roscoe was the bad guy you were suppose to hate but he was just so charming and handsome as Joe who really loved Siobhan but couldn’t break his ties to the mob that you couldn’t help but root for him.

Roscoe then had a shot at primetime stardom on Paper Dolls but after that was cancelled he returned to daytime as evil Mitch Laurence on One Life to Live, then back to Ryan’s Hope as Joe in the summer of 1988 to wrap up his storyline, then onward to Santa Barbara as Robert Barr, etc. Most recently he appeared on Days of Our Lives.

I knew that Roscoe could sing but never heard him. Now I have. Click below. He has a really interesting voice and the song is very catchy.

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IT’S OFFICIAL

The title of former ’60s starlet Gail Gerber’s memoir, which I co-wrote woth her, is

Trippin’ with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember

The book should be out in late Spring 2009.

Below is Gail, my partner Ern, and me.